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prolonged into a very slender beak which bears at its tip the 

 copious soft white pappus. 



T. officinale, DANDELION. Leaves coarsely pinnatifid, sinuate- 

 dentate; heads large, orange-yellow, outer involucral bracts elongated 

 and conspicuously reflexed ; achenes olive-green or brownish. Open 

 ground everywhere. April to September. 



